An Exploration of Reading Strategy Used by ESP Students

A Self-Report from First-Year Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210423.086How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading strategy use, English for specific purposes, Survey of Reading Strategy (SORS)

Abstract

This study was aimed at exploring reading strategy use by first-year non-English department students in Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang. The participants in this study were 50 Governmental Science students who took intensive reading I. In this study, the questionnaire named Survey of Reading Strategy (SORS) was used to investigate reading strategy level and most preferable of reading strategy use. Based on the result of the study, the non-English department students were classified into low reading strategy user. Moreover, the result illustrated that the preferable reading strategy was thinking about what they know to assist them to understand the text under the area of global strategy. Then it was followed by problem-solving strategy; stop time to time and think about what they are reading. Last, supporting strategy is represented by underlining or circling information on the text to help them understand the text.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nunung Mardianti
AU  - Primardiana Hermilia Wijayanti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/26
TI  - An Exploration of Reading Strategy Used by ESP Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Assessment and Policy (ICEAP 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 190
EP  - 195
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210423.086
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.086
ID  - Mardianti2021
ER  -